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Adam Gemili

Gemili at the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zürich
Personal information
Born	(1993-10-06) 6 October 1993 (age 31) London, England
Height	1.78 m
Weight	75 kg
Sport
Country	Great Britain & N.I. England
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Sprinting
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m: 9.97 (Birmingham 2015) 200 m: 19.97 (Brussels 2016)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Great Britain World Championships Gold 2017 London 4 × 100 m relay Silver 2019 Doha 4 × 100 m relay Bronze 2022 Eugene 4 × 100 m relay European Championships Gold 2014 Zürich 200 m Gold 2014 Zürich 4 × 100 m relay Gold 2016 Amsterdam 4 × 100 m relay Gold 2018 Berlin 4 × 100 m relay European Under 23 Championships Gold 2013 Tampere 100 m Gold 2013 Tampere 4 × 100 m relay World Junior Championships Gold 2012 Barcelona 100 m European Junior Championships Silver 2011 Tallinn 100 m Silver 2011 Tallinn 4 × 100 m relay Representing  England Commonwealth Games Silver 2014 Glasgow 100 m Silver 2014 Glasgow 4 × 100 m relay

Adam Ahmed Gemili, born on October 6, 1993, is a super-fast British runner, also known as a sprinter. He became the European champion in the 200 metres in 2014. He has also won the European title three times as part of the 4 × 100 metres relay team. In 2017, he helped the Great Britain team win a gold medal at the World Championships in the 4 × 100 metres relay.

Adam has achieved fourth place in the 200 metres at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. He also finished fourth and fifth in the same event at different World Championships. He is a special athlete because he was the first British runner to complete both the 100 metres in under 10 seconds and the 200 metres in under 20 seconds. He was also the first man of North African, Arab, or Iranian background to run the 100 metres in under 10 seconds.

Adam won silver medals in the 100 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He was also a World Junior champion in the 100 metres. He became a European Under-23 champion in both the 100 metres and the 4 × 100 metres relay. Adam has won the national championship in the 200 metres three times.

About Adam Gemili

Early Life and Education

Adam Gemili's mother was born in Iran, and his father is from Morocco. His father moved to Britain when he was a teenager. Adam went to Dartford Grammar School when he was eleven. He also studied Sport at Barking and Dagenham College.

After the 2012 Olympics, Adam studied Sports and Exercise Science at the University of East London. He wrote about how different warm-up exercises affect how fast sprinters run. Adam is a member of the Blackheath and Bromley Harriers Athletic Club.

Football Background

Before becoming a full-time sprinter, Adam was a football player. He played as a defender for teams like Dagenham & Redbridge and Thurrock F.C.. He also spent seven years playing in the youth academy at Chelsea from the age of eight. He also spent a year at Reading. In 2012, Adam decided to focus completely on athletics.

Adam's Sprinting Journey

Starting Strong (2011-2015)

In 2011, Adam won a silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. He also helped the British team win a silver medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay. That year, he ran the 200 metres in 20.98 seconds, which was the fastest time for a European junior.

In June 2012, Adam ran a time that qualified him for the 2012 London Olympics in the 100 metres. He ran 10.08 seconds, which was the second fastest time ever by a British junior at that point. He was chosen for the British 4 × 100 metres relay team for the Olympics.

On July 11, 2012, Adam won the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics. He finished in 10.05 seconds, setting a new championship record. This time was also a new British junior record. At the 2012 London Olympics, Adam finished third in his 100 metres semi-final. He was very close to reaching the final.

In 2013, Adam started training for the 200 metres. At the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, he ran a personal best of 19.98 seconds in the semi-final. This made him only the second British athlete to run under 20 seconds in the event. He finished fifth in the final.

Adam Gemili (second from the right) won his first big individual title in the 200 metres at the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zürich.

Adam won his first senior medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He came second in the 100 metres final. Two weeks later, he won his first senior title, taking gold in the 200 metres at the 2014 European Athletics Championships. He matched his personal best time of 19.98 seconds.

Breaking Records and Olympic Dreams (2015-2019)

On May 31, 2015, Adam ran the 100 metres in 9.97 seconds. This was the first time he ran under 10 seconds, but the wind was too strong for it to count as an official record. Two months later, in July, he officially broke the 10-second barrier. He ran 9.97 seconds legally, becoming the 100th man in history to do so. However, he fell as he crossed the finish line and injured his hamstring, which made him miss the 2015 World Championships.

Adam made it to the men's 200 metres final at the 2016 Rio Olympics. He finished fourth, missing a bronze medal by just six thousandths of a second!

In 2017, Adam was part of the British 4 × 100 metres relay team at the World Championships. They won a historic gold medal, setting a new national and European record. This race was also famous because it was Usain Bolt's last race, and he got injured during it.

Adam competed in both the 100 metres and 200 metres at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. He just missed out on the 100 metres final. In the 200 metres final, he was leading for a while but finished in fourth place. He then ran the first part of the men's 4 × 100 metres relay, helping the team win a silver medal and set a new European record of 37.36 seconds.

Achievements

The gold medal-winning British 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2017 London World Championships (from left to right): Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, CJ Ujah, Adam Gemili and Danny Talbot.

International Competitions

Representing  Great Britain /  England

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result
2011	European Junior Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	2nd	100 m	10.41
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	39.48
2012	World Junior Championships	Barcelona, Spain	1st	100 m	10.05 CR
			– (f)	4 × 100 m relay	DNF
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	3rd (sf)	100 m	10.06
			– (h)	4 × 100 m relay	DQ
2013	European U23 Championships	Tampere, Finland	1st	100 m	10.20
			4th	200 m	20.51
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.77
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	5th	200 m	20.08
			– (f)	4 × 100 m relay	DQ
2014	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, Scotland	2nd	100 m	10.10
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	38.02
	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	1st	200 m	19.98
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	37.93
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	1st	4 × 100 m relay	38.17
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	4th	200 m	20.12
			5th	4 × 100 m relay	37.98
2017	World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	– (f)	4 × 100 m relay	38.321
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	1st	4 × 100 m relay	37.47
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	– (f)	100 m	DNS
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	5th	200 m	20.10
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	37.80
2019	World Relays	Yokohama, Japan	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	38.15
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	11th (sf)	100 m	10.13
			4th	200 m	20.03
			2nd	4 × 100 m relay	37.36 AR
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	47th (h)	200 m	158.58
2022	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	28th (h)	200 m	20.60
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	38.491
	Commonwealth Games	Birmingham, United Kingdom	12th (sf)	200 m	20.97
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	4th	4 × 100 m relay	37.80

¹Time from the heats; Gemili was replaced in the final.

Circuit Wins and National Championships

• Diamond League
  • 2016: London Anniversary Games (4 × 100 m relay)
  • 2018: London (4 × 100 m relay)
  • 2020: Stockholm BAUHAUS-galan (200 m)
• British Athletics Championships
  • 200 metres: 2016, 2019, 2021

See also

In Spanish: Adam Gemili para niños